This blog is for people who love and care for Kathy Newhouse. On this site, her husband Galen attempts to update the daily events around her recovery and make it easier for people, who are spread around the country, to keep up with the news. I hope not only to keep you informed but be more accurate in describing her progress. We all love Kathy and pray for her full and speedy recovery.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Picture of Intraventricular Rupture (File Photo)

MRI shows the abscess communicatingand discharging, through a tract, into theipselateral ventricle. Intraventricular rupture ofan abscess is usually a catastrophic event leadingto ventriculitis and dissemination of organismsthroughout the cerebrospinal fluid pathway.This event accounts for the calamitousdeterioration in the patient’s clinical condition.